The PhotoForum members' gallery/exhibit space was updated 03 APR. 04. Authors with work now on display at http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery.html include: Per Ofverbeck - Copenhagen Library Quite a nice "oblique" shot. Not really a record photo, more to show the unusual mechanics of this library and showing a little symmetrical pattern. Nicely seen. Dan Mitchell - Denver Reading Room Life was different 100 years ago. Only a few people could read and the Church ruled the roost. In this age, it was an enlightened group who saw the benefits of universal literacy and these reading rooms were made available in the libraries to allow the poor to have access to reading material. Before only the Bible was sought, but now all the books that they could get were read. It was feared by the clergy as it meant that ordinary folk could read the Bible themselves and have their own ideas. However many benefited with books on trades and the sciences. Achal Pashine - Fashion show Model Yes, another tepy elrig. (pretty girl). She looks professional in her pose and knows how to show her best looks. Not all Indian ladies look like that, but quite a lot do.... mmm ... "selective breeding". The rich just call it "breeding" --- urgh! Pini Vollach - Gazebo Nice formal garden. Beautiful proportions, we have them all over England, quite a lot are open to the public.... You can tire of them.... Jim Davis - Mating Flush Yes - its spring again and there all at it! Sort of central in the frame and a birds head portrait. We try to make these images as human-like as possible so we understand them in human terms..... But it a bird. Lives a different life sees differently, hears differently and has some senses we don't have. So making it "human" is just for us. Peeter Vissak - Annection I don't know what "Annection" is, but those snakes look nasty. I think that grass snakes cant hurt but vipers can. I trod on one once and needed hospital treatment. Jeff Spirer - Illusion Certainly a strange effect. But it shows another life and the conditions of those children. A photo cannot show all of the life only a series can but that could form part of a series showing the life there. Trevor Cunningham - Minarets and Mirrors ala Aschal Something to do with the reflection of an object being as far behind the mirror as the object is in front. It is as if you were looking directly at the minarettes, with the mirror like a window. If you look at an elementary school book on optics you can see a ray tracing of what is happening. Useful for a photographer. Nice shot. WRGill - Strip Mall, 03.31.04 Not altogether sure what is meant. I thought at first it was a steel works then I thought it was a place where people went to strip shows, but now I think it is a linear shopping centre. Over here they are just "Shopping Malls" with enclosed streets of shops. Ideal for our climate most of the year. They seem to be building them everywhere with car parks, also enclosed. This one looks like it connected to a pier at sea, something we link to entertainment as well as defunct landing place for small pleasure steamers and small cross-channel packets. jIMMY Harris - Barrels Looks like horse training. Nice rural scene. Christopher Strevens - New life I had the telephoto attachment and could not get any closer. I did not stoop to change the lens - sorry. But close-up might have been too close and normal would have been a wider field. Maris V. Lidaka, Sr. - Ferris Wheel at Navy Pier Nice abstract pattern - like it. Might have been better in monochrome as the mind would only have the pattern to sort out. Chris http://www.chrisspages.co.uk
